CTAN package update: NCCTOOLS

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be
at your favorite mirror.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: NCCTOOLS bundle
Author's name: Alexander I Rozhenko
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ncctools
Summary description: Release 3.4
License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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This is the major release of the bundle having many improvements. Three
new packages are introduced and the `nccsect' package is essentially
improved.
The most interest package is the `addtopackage'. It introduces the
\AddToPackage command applying commands after a specified package is
loaded. Using it, you can specify patches, additions, and other staff
that will be executed right after the respective package is loaded (or
at the point where this command is applied if the respective package
is already loaded).
The new `topsection' package introduces the \topsection command

CTAN package update: NCCLATEX

The package described below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should
be at your favorite mirror soon.
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: NCCLATEX bundle
Author's name: Alexander I Rozhenko
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ncclatex
Summary description: Release 1.4
License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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This is the major release of the bundle having many improvements. It
requires the `ncctools' bundle of release 3.4. Seven new packages are
introduced. Other packages and the `ncc' class are revised.
The new `nccdefaults' package sets defaults for some packages from
the `ncctools' bundle in correspondence with Russian polygraph. It
does this without loading of packages to be modified via the
\AddToPackage hook.
The new `ncctheorems' package specifies 8 theorem-like environments
in 3 variants that were early specified in the `ncclatex' package.
The same \AddToPackage technique is used here. So, all these

CTAN has a new package: TengwarScript

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its
way to your favorite mirror.
I apologize for the delay; thank you for prompting me.
Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: TengwarScript
Author's name: Ignacio Fernández Galván
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/tengwarscript
Summary description: A package for writing tengwar with LaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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The TengwarScript package provides a mid-level access to tengwar fonts
while still generating good output by default. Each tengwar sign has an
individual command, wich should place the sign nicely with relation to
the preceding signs. So, to write the word "quetta" in Quenya mode one
would write: \Tquesse\Tacute\Ttinco\TTdoubler\TTthreedots
TengwarScribe supports several tengwar fonts which can be found in
Type 1 format or easily converted, including Dan Smith's fonts,
Tengwar Parmaite, Tengwar Annatar and others. The full set of supported
fonts can be found in the manual and in the sample "tengfonts.pdf" file.

CTAN has a new package: labelcas

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make
its way to your favorite mirror.
Thank you
Jim Hefferon
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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: labelcas
Author's name: Ulrich Diez
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/labelcas
Summary description: check label-existence and fork properly
License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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labelcas - check label-existence and fork properly
This LaTeX2e-package provides macros "\eachlabelcase" and
"\lotlabelcase" as a means of forking dependent on whether
specific referencing-labels exist in the current document.
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See this package at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/labelcas
. You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror
near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors .
Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .

CTAN package upgrade: ConTeXt distribution

The ConTeXt distribution has been upgraded at tug.ctan.org and should soon
make its way to your favorite mirror.
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: ConTeXt distribution
Location on CTAN: /macros/context/current
Summary description: ConTeXt Release 2006.01.09
License type: gpl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release
from Hans Hagen can be downloaded.
As usual, there is an html page with more detailed release
notes available on the Wiki, see:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_Notes
A short list of the most recently added features:
* A completely new context interface: cont-fr (french)
* Support modules for GNUplot graphics and Dratex
* Mptopdf now supports multiple arguments on the command line.
* Additional distribution archives with font metrics (cont-fnt) and third-party modules (cont-ext)

CTAN package update: pst-vue3d

Herbert Voss writes:
> I have uploaded pst-vue3d.tgz to the uk mirror.
> Please put the files into the dir
>
> /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-vue3d/examples/
>
> the tarzip contains two more tex|pdf examples:
> - Function on a Simplex
> - a surface like Gabriel's Horn
i've installed the update, and updated the package's catalogue entry
to draw attention to the comprehensive set of examples.
thanks for the upload.
Robin Fairbairns
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CTAN upload: IndicType1 (New CTAN package)

On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Karel Piska [P\'{\i}\v{s}ka] submitted the new package
indic-type1
to CTAN.
Location on CTAN: /fonts/ps-type1/indic
Summary description: Indic Type 1 fonts for TeX converted from public METAFONT sources
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
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The Type 1 version of public METAFONT fonts (from CTAN)
for 10 Indic scripts: Devanagari, Sanskrit,
Gurmukhi/Punjabi, Bangla, Tamil, Sinhala,
Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Tibetan.
An accurate analytic conversion to outlines using
the METAPOST output with subsequent optimization
and autohinting with FontForge.
The package contains the PFB and MAP files for 122 fonts,
the copies of the TFM files have been also included
to allow testing the fonts without the original packages.
For font tables, proofsheet files and another information
see http://www-hep.fzu.cz/~piska/indic.html.
Collaboration with the (La)TeX package authors and users
is welcome.
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Thanks for the upload.

CTAN update: fig2vect-1.1.3

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Dirk Krause submitted an update to the
fig2vect
package.
Location on CTAN: /support/fig2vect
Summary description: Yet another Fig to vector converter
License type: bsd
Announcement text:
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The former EPS driver was changed into a PS/EPS
driver. It can produce either PS or EPS now.
The showpage and setpagedevice operators can only
be used when producing PS.
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
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CTAN update: spanish hyphenation patterns

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Javier Bezos submitted updates to the spanish
hyphenation patterns, ie. to
a) the subtree language/spanish
b) the file language/hyphenation/eshyph.tex
> This is an update for the Spanish hyphenation patterns
> supported by the Spanish TUG CervanTeX:
>
> - Thanks to a list of about 750000 words and extensive
> tests, wrong hyphenations have been reduced dramatically
> and the number of patterns has been almost duplicated.
>
> - Since the Spanish Academy rules of 1999 are very vague,
> incomplete and even contradictory, they had to be
> completed with some traditional ones. The Academy has
> published new rules in November 2005 including many of
> the traditional ones employed here and therefore only
> minor adjustments have been necessary.
>
> - Patterns for a few verbal endings are necessary, and
> now the "voseo" forms (used in many countries of Central
> and South America) have been included.
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
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CTAN update: svninfo

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Achim D. Brucker submitted version 0.5 of the
svninfo
package.
Location on CTAN: /tex/macros/latex/contrib/svninfo/
Summary description: svninfo 0.5 -- A package for accessing svn revision information
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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The "svninfo" package is used to extract the revision and file information
provided by the subversion (svn) revision control system and provides
commands for accessing them within LaTeX documents.
This version adds a new command \svnKeyword for defining arbitrary svn
keywords (e.g. $Author:$, $Date:$). Further, the support for LaTeX2HTML
was removed.
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
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